"Oculus has added a check [to look for] whether the Oculus Rift headset is connected to their Oculus Platform DRM," Revive developer "CrossVR" posted to the Vive Reddit community on Friday. "While Revive fools the application [into] thinking the Rift is connected, it does nothing to make the actual Oculus platform think the headset is connected."

However Oculus wants to describe this update, users have wasted no time in quoting company founder Palmer Luckey's own statement about such issues.

"If customers buy a game from us, I don't care if they mod it to run on whatever they want," Luckey wrote in December. "Our goal is not to profit by locking people to only our hardware—if it was, why in the world would we be supporting GearVR and talking with other headset makers?"

The researchers said the attacks were made possible by two intrinsic design flaws in the SmartThings framework that aren't easily fixed. They went on to say that consumers should think twice before using the system to connect door locks and other security-critical components.

According to the researchers, the design of the SmartThings framework was a key contributor to that threat. So far, Samsung has provided no details on plans to fix it.

Fitbit is right now pushing out the critical patch, and folks are advised to update their Aria scale firmware as soon as possible to prevent attacks. The scales should automatically get the update within the next few days, though their owners can also check for updates through the FitBit dashboard tool.

With more companies hooking their appliances up to the internet, security researchers are finding tons of new holes in connected devices that allow for everything from the remote control of appliances to the ability to siphon off personal information.

If you haven't driven the most recent Audis, Teslas, and Volvos, you'd be surprised how smart these vehicles have become and how rapidly previous generations become dated. Driver assistance systems aren't quite fully autonomous yet, but if a car's sensors can read the lines on the road, it will do almost everything for you.

About seventeen months ago Google acquired Revolv, rolling the smart-home vendor's products in with its also-acquired Nest product line. Revolv hardware effectively lets users control any number of smart-home technologies around the home, ranging from home thermostats and garage door openers, to outdoor lights and security and motion detection systems. But according to an updated Revolv FAQ, all of these systems will no longer work as of May 15, 2016.

Needless to say, there's a growing number of people annoyed with the fact that a $300 smart home hub will soon be totally useless.

The survey of more than 6,000 residents in the UK found a disconnect between the growing number of people interested in buying Internet of things (IoT) devices and their abilities to secure those devices. More than a quarter of respondents said they are planning to buy IoT devices in the next 12 months. However, 66 percent of them are concerned about attacks against their devices, and 57 percent are worried about privacy breaches.

Security experts worry that the increase in the number of connected devices will greatly expand the attack surface for hackers and other cyber-criminals. The debate around IoT and security touches on myriad issues, from determining whether certain devices need priority over others, to encouraging device makers to figure security into the design rather than bolting it on after the product is finished.

Connected cars are becoming "increasingly vulnerable" to cyberattack, according to an advisory issued Thursday by the FBI and the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

In its public service announcement, the FBI outlined the kinds of hacks security researchers have been able to perform. In a target vehicle traveling at low speeds (5-10 mph), researchers were able to shutdown an engine as well as disable brakes and steering. In a target vehicle traveling at any speed, they were able to control door locks, radio, GPS and the turn signals.

The TVs phone home across the internet to Pana's backend systems – such as mhc-xpana-eu.myhomescreen.tv – and if they can't reach the machines, the TVs assume the network is down. That totally stuns the TVs' software, and leaves people unable to start up installed apps, we're told.

"They've also cocked the code up, as it assumes if it can't talk to that server that the entire network is unavailable and reports a network error."

Ringing Bells said their Freedom 251 phone would be priced under 500 rupees (£5; $7.3), but Indian media reports said it would cost just 251 rupees ($3.67; £2.56).

"This is our flagship model and we think it will bring a revolution in the industry," the AFP news agency quoted a spokeswoman as saying.

Since 2014, the world's most profitable smartphone company has -- without warning -- permanently disabled some iPhones that had their home buttons replaced by repair shops in the course of fixing a shattered screen. Phones that underwent the same repair at Apple service centers, meanwhile, have continued working just fine.

Apple says it was merely trying to keep the iPhones "secure," and that "Error 53" -- the code that pops up after the company bricks a unit -- is meant to ensure that nobody messes with the phone's fingerprint sensor.